Lovely but the headline sorta implies that the village has reached balance with itself, which doesn't take into account the manufacture of the panels and glasse

Lovely but the headline sorta implies that the village has reached balance with itself, which doesn't take into account the manufacture of the panels and glasses and building materials it's using to reduce carbon emissions going forward, nor the production of cars - of which I see at least two of in the picture there. Laudable, but local closed systems don't mean too much if the macro system's belching out god only knows what to keep innumerable microsystems functioning anyway.